Woman shot in neck at Reading home

A loud argument on a Sixth and Elm streets porch turned into a shooting early Friday afternoon as a man in a wheelchair shot and wounded a woman in the neck, police said.

Police said the suspect was in custody and being questioned. They did not identify him.

Meanwhile, the woman — identified by neighbors only as "Mommy" because they didn’t know her real name — was taken to Reading Hospital.

Kelly Wiegand, who lives a block away at Sixth and Walnut, said she could hear the argument on the porch on Sixth and Elm’s southwest corner and heard one shot about 1:35 p.m.

She said residents who lived closer told her the woman, her husband, and the man in a wheelchair were on the porch. When the shot was fired, they said they saw the woman fall and the wheelchair-bound man roll down the ramp and head west on Elm.

Wiegand and other neighbors described the woman as very friendly to neighbors and kids in the area.

Police did not identify the victim, but said she is in her late 30s to early 40s.

Meanwhile, police were looking in trash cans throughout the area for a gun.